Here is a lovely Colin Laing I refurbished and sold to a fellow list member. Beautiful workmanship and it fit my 5' wife. It is a 46x 63cm! We loved it but also have a Co-motion Ti tandem. The CL was a bit heavy for me to lift to the roof rack!
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On Jan 16, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Colin Laing wrote:
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> Margaret and I had always enjoyed the tandeming, except each time I made us a
> new one, someone would always want to buy it,,,,,and so, when my illness became
> too severe to work properly ( Muscular Dystrophy ) I decided to make a last
> tandem and we could enjoy short rides along the canal-bank ( paved )
> together..We painted it her favourite blue and we both were very excited when
> we wheeled it out of the workshop for it's maiden voyage,,,,then, disaster,
> after about half a mile, I realised that I didn't have the strength to hold the
> thing straight and we were in danger of falling....sadly, we walked it back home
> and the next day, took it to a Bike-shop for them to sell it for us.
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> However, when we were both ultra-active, tandeming was a real pleasure , I could
> "do my nut " on the front and when we arrived at wherever we were going,
> Margaret was still there,, on the other hand, if we were on singles, we would
> both get slightly mad at each other.
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> When I was healing from a badly broken leg, we still took out the tandem and
> this time, it was Margaret who " did the donkey " and my legs were simply
> spinning with her cadence,,,helped the healing greatly.
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> Colin ( when is Winter due to start ) Laing in Sunny Chandler, Az, USA